Friday, January 9, 2026

Supply and Demand for Data Centers

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A recent Visual Capitalist Info-graphic  displays a fair amount of agglomeration of data centers. Not only does Virginia (!) lead, but many ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

VPPs Change the Scale of Energy Production

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  Advances in Virtual Power Plants ( VPPs ) illustrate how changes in Minimum Efficient Scale (MES) can reshape industry structure. Tradit...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Why is the Venezuelan stock market up over 100% following US hostilities?

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Students for Liberty : Under Maduro's "socialism of the 21st century," ... Venezuelans resorted to eating dogs and scavenging ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

A tale of two cities and rent control

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WSJ:  What the Twin Cities Tell Us About Fixing the Housing Crisis The Natural Experiment: In 2022, St. Paul enacted one of the strictest r...

President Trump vs. Economists on Tariff Predictions

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WSJ: Why Everyone Got Trump’s Tariffs Wrong   Economists were right that Tariffs would push up inflation (it went up slightly) and have li...

European Pensions are in bad shape

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Economist :   Europe’s fastest-ageing countries also already offer some of the most generous pensions and lowest retirement ages. The aver...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Arbitrage Fueled by Data Analytics

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Reuters reports  that Williams-Sonoma recently sued "dupe" producer,  Quince , for an unfair comparison. Dupe producers include on...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Streaming Merger Market Definition

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  One aspect of the antitrust review of the Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) merger with Netflix (or Paramount ) will be what constitutes th...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Econ makes you right -eaning, clear-thinking, and wealthier

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 From Marginal Revolution : studying social sciences and humanities makes students more left-leaning, whereas studying economics and busin...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Will AI get rid of billable hours?

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WSJ: Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI Ironically, what began as an effort to promote transparency and efficiency for legal wor...